I don’t know that I would try to find a single " safety school" as much as maybe find a few “higher-admit” schools that will provide somewhat of a safety net. The only true safety is one that is 100% admit, and even finding one school that is, say 70% admit, that’s not really what you seem to be looking for. My advice would be to find 3 schools in the 30-40% admission rate, and do enough research on them to fall in love with them truly so they aren’t a sad-plan-B “safety school.” (Because they are just as amazing as the lower-admit schools, really!).
As for doing the research about STEM and swimming, I would recommend doing a search on boarding school review dot com for swimming and cross country, and then checking the admit rates and creating a list that way.
As for Loomis admission rate, that is a number from 2 seasons ago from my understanding. (Which, again IIRC, resulted in way oversubscribed female 9th graders due to unusually high yield that year.). I think it is best to think of Loomis as an 18-20% school. But if you add a couple of 30-40% admit schools, you would be in great shape in my opinion.
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